About Teanna Sunberg

is passionate about the message of God on mission. She writes and speaks about justice with a focus on refugees and anti-trafficking, missiology, and cultures. Teanna has an M.A. in missional leadership and is an ordained elder in the Nazarene Church. She currently lives with her husband Jay and their 4 daughters in Budapest, Hungary. Click Teanna's name to visit her blog: Across Cultures.

It is Friday afternoon and my 14-year old folds her tall frame into the passenger seat. “Mom, I am so angry.” Uh-oh. My mother’s heart braces for teen-age trouble.

“Today in class, Mr. X. said that women cannot be pastors because they are inferior to men. And Mom, when I told him that I think that God has equipped women to be or to do anything that God calls them to, including pastor, he told me I was wrong and that my perspective was unbiblical.”